Major Additions - 8WayRun.Com - Media Library

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This is a new modification, spawning from the old VB 3.x Video Directory modifications.
For all intents and purposes, both my old Video Directory Remixed mod, and Survivor's original Video Directory mod have been discontinued. Neither of us are maintaining these older versions, they will not receive any future updates and we will not be providing any support. This version has a new name because it has been completely rewritten from scratch and is not being built on Survivor's old code. Because of this, if you are upgrading to this new version, from the old version, be sure to read this entire post in order to understand the upgrade process.

What is this mod?
Simply put, this mod is a directory for media. It supports URL inputs, in order to extract meta data and directorize media into a simple and easy to understand library. Users can add their favorite media from a select few online distribution centers (such as Youtube or Vimeo) and categorize and tag them as they see fit. This mod offers rudimentary support for the hosting of local media. An administrator can upload a media to the /customVID/ (default) directory; then add the media to the library using the URL code of "local:filename". Media hosted locally will be displayed using JWPlayer, but will not provide meta data, so that kind of information will need to be entered manually.

Demo:

http://www.8wayrun.com/media.php

Features:

• Integrated directly into the vBulletin user database and product manager.
• Fully phrased and built on tempaltes for easy re-skinning and styling.
• Simple to use administration features and usergroup permission settings.
• Landing page with the most recent, most popular and highest rated media.
• Ability to add media into a single category, while adding multiple tags.
• Ability to browse media through categories, tags, and user contributions.
• Summary tag cloud with a link to the entire list of tags in the system.
• Comment and rating system based on AJAX including graceful degredation.
• Individual RSS Feeds for newest videos, categories, tags and user media.
• Search function for titles and descriptions.

Installation:

If you are upgrading from before version 1.1, please install that version first.

1. Upload all the files in the "upload" directory of the attached zip file to your forum root.
2. CHMOD the /customVID/thumbs/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
3. CHMOD the /customVID/sitemap/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
4. Import the product file called "product-medialibrary.xml" in the Product Manager of vBulletin.
5. Set your usergroup permissions and media library settings in your administration control panel.
6. OPTIONAL: Enable the "Generate XML Media Sitemap" scheduled task in your administration control panel.
   
   NOTES: Make sure you decide what you wish to use for your thumbnail quality setting. By default, thumbnails are saved at 50% quality. At 50%, thumbnails will only be 2kb in size, but at the expense of quality. At 100%, thumbnails will be about 15kb in size, but will have the highest quality. I recommend setting it to 80%, which would leave thumbnails at 5kb in size with still excellent quality.
   
   Every time you change your thumbnail quality setting, you will need to run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" to see any changes.

Upgrading from VDR:

1. The "video*" tables from your previous installation of VDR need to exist in your database.
2. Enable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
3. Run the "Import Media from VDR" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
4. Disable the "media ADMIN import" plugin in the plugin manager of your control panel.
5. Run the "Rebuild Media Thumbnails" process in your update counters menu in maintenance.
6. You may now uninstall VDR once you confirm everything has been imported as intended.
   
   NOTES: You will mostly likely get at least one error while rebuilding media thumbnails...
   
   When you get an error, click the details link for that media. If the media displays some sort of error such as "This video has been removed" or "This video no longer exist", then that means that media is gone and you'll be unable to generate a thumbnail for that particular media. Use the available options on that media's detail page to DELETE it from your library. Then go back to your browser window which is rebuilding thumbnails and click the "retry from this position" link.
   
   If you got an error for a media, but after clicking the details link you can find no obvious error with the video; then the error could have just been a simple syn/ack failure. Just click the "retry from this position" link and the system will try to rebuild that thumbnail again.

Known Bugs:

There is a conflict with this modification and some of Valter's VSA modifications that will prevent navbar permissions from being handled correctly. I don't know exactly who's fault it is; but I'm pretty sure there are no errors in my code that would be causing this problem. There is a work around for this however.

Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > "media NAVTAB"

Find the code:

    $perms = media_permissions();

Replace with:

$perms['rate'] = true;
$perms['comment'] = true;
$perms['submit'] = true;
$perms['playlist'] = true;
 
if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, explode(',','5,6')))
{
    $perms['modtags'] = true;
    $perms['modcategory'] = true;
    $perms['modservice'] = true;
}

[Sforums]

Intsalled in vb 4.1.6.

New thread apperas with video that works but in Media (navbar) when I click on video get this meessage:

The requested URL /media/m2-new-zealand-all-blacks-haka-war-dance-high-quality was not found on this server.

Same goes for all other videos. Why is this?

edit: Just realized, it is not supported. And now nothing works at all. This was mod of the month? Go figure.

[monkeyboy1916]

Originally Posted by Sforums

Intsalled in vb 4.1.6.

New thread apperas with video that works but in Media (navbar) when I click on video get this meessage:

The requested URL /media/m2-new-zealand-all-blacks-haka-war-dance-high-quality was not found on this server.

Same goes for all other videos. Why is this?

edit: Just realized, it is not supported. And now nothing works at all. This was mod of the month? Go figure.

The most common error I'd guess is an htaccess problem. Did you update your .htaccess with the .htaccess rules included?

[EuroBeat2]

Originally Posted by Angle4cor

Always when I try to submit a video I see this:

The description you have entered is too short (7 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 10 characters.

I'm using vB 4.1.7. Does anyone of you know how to resolve this problem ?

I cant find nothing in ACP.

Well. I just installed this plugin with VB 4.1.7 but have to do all the editing for various files and themes as suggested. Works very well. I just wanted to mention that I previously had Video Directory for VB 3.8. I did manage to convert most of videos (with exception of those that were no longer available in YouTube and Dailymotion).

You can check the outcome on my forum at http://forums.eurodancehits.com

EB

[sharemee]

Originally Posted by Angle4cor

Always when I try to submit a video I see this:

The description you have entered is too short (7 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 10 characters.

I'm using vB 4.1.7. Does anyone of you know how to resolve this problem ?

I cant find nothing in ACP.

Hello,

Did you find a solution to this ?

using VB 4.1.5
only just noticed as i was just about to add a few vids, but was given the same message :

The description you have entered is too short (0 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 10 characters.

just incase you need to know,

when i click the import media to import from YT the description does not import with the video


Love to get this working again, ..


PLease help


Best Regards

[ofir24]

Originally Posted by EuroBeat2

Well. I just installed this plugin with VB 4.1.7 but have to do all the editing for various files and themes as suggested. Works very well. I just wanted to mention that I previously had Video Directory for VB 3.8. I did manage to convert most of videos (with exception of those that were no longer available in YouTube and Dailymotion).

You can check the outcome on my forum at http://forums.eurodancehits.com

EB

i have vb 4.1.7, i even don't know when to start 155 pages, can you post instructions how to make it work on vb 4.1.7?

[EuroBeat2]

Originally Posted by ofir24

i have vb 4.1.7, i even don't know when to start 155 pages, can you post instructions how to make it work on vb 4.1.7?

I started installing the product based on the description provided by the author.

Make sure that after the installation is completed you CHMODDED the correct folders and files. Example
CHMOD the /customVID/thumbs/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.
CHMOD the /customVID/sitemap/ directory to full read/write/execute 777 permissions.


After you complete the installation you will have problem with editing comments (you will see messages like: The description you have entered is too short (7 characters). Please lengthen your description to at least 10 characters.. The problem is that new editor is used. Therefore, after you will complete installation follow precisely helps posted in:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2117
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2107
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=940

That what I have done and it works. Let me remind you that I upgraded from VDR I originally had in ver 3.8

EB

[ofir24]

i don't familier with the therm "chmod", as far as i know chmod change detailes when you use ftp. right now i'm using my computer and in the future i will use vps.

[ofir24]

i think the : "Syndication of this video was restricted by its owner" problem is :
cause the mod copy the information of the video, the description, title, tags etc come out before the video, i guess youtube recognaize it and block the video.
i think if there is no aoutomatic for description, title, tags etc , the video will work

[shakirulqadree]

Pleas up date this mod for VB 4.1.7

[RSNF]

Originally Posted by Sforums

Intsalled in vb 4.1.6.

New thread apperas with video that works but in Media (navbar) when I click on video get this meessage:

The requested URL /media/m2-new-zealand-all-blacks-haka-war-dance-high-quality was not found on this server.

Same goes for all other videos. Why is this?

edit: Just realized, it is not supported. And now nothing works at all. This was mod of the month? Go figure.

Did you even look when the last time this mod was updated by the coder? October 2010 pretty sure 4.1.6 was not out in October 2010............Just saying.